Utarkurruvanam or The harmony of components parts of the Human body is poem written by the great Cittar Patinathar. This poems retains the cynical view of life typical to him. The poem details life from an embryo to death and finally ashes. I am posting the translation of this poem in 4 parts – Life, Youth,Old Age,Death.

The first part of the beautiful translation of the Patinathar poem by Kamil Zvelebil follows,

Now we are in Kalikalam. Nobody can become a pattinathar. Everybody in this world should
read god pattinathars biography and especially
our younger generation should be educated that
everything is maya and our main purpose of this
birth is to attain jeevan mukthi or moksha.